“Drag is really about mocking identity. Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are – you are more than what it says on your passport.”

—  RuPaul

Quoted by Owen Myers in The subversive genius of RuPaul http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/24914/1/the-subversive-genius-of-rupaul (2015)

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